Julie Schumacher quotes

“Boredom is why God invented books.”
-- Julie Schumacher

Source : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.119, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?”
-- Julie Schumacher

Source : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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“A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.”
-- Julie Schumacher

Source : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.116, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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“My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.”
-- Julie Schumacher

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“Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.”
-- Julie Schumacher

Source : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.151, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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“I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.”
-- Julie Schumacher

Source : Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.50, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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“Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.”
-- Julie Schumacher

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“I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.”
-- Julie Schumacher

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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

“Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.”

“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”